The brand new Intuity workshop Since we do a lot of tinkering, prototyping and hardware hacking in our lab (for instance the PeeNodes project) we decided to transform our photo studio into the “Intuity workshop”. Last monday we celebrated the opening of the new office space. Finally we have a place for brazing, hammering, screwing, [...]

Interaction designers develop our digital everyday life. They concept, sketch and create new possibilities of interaction, which are evaluated with functional and technical prototypes. The book “Prototyping Interfaces – Interactive Sketches with VVVV” covers the applied handling of interactive sketches with the visual programming language VVVV. The book is the result of the bachelor thesis [...]

Prototyping is sometimes a fiddly thing. For example getting data from Arduino into AS3 usually turns into a real odyssee hence Flash cannot do serial connections due to security restrictions. Up to now, there are three steps to make Arduino talk to Flash: After sending the data from Arduino to a serial port (1) you [...]

OTTO ~ Getting Started from Luca De Rosso on Vimeo. Otto seems to be a fantastic example for a tangible interface to sound & sampling. Very nice! More demos can be found on Luca’s website. “Check dis out-e!”

Our friends at Meso exhibited the EnBW Energy Scope interactive exhibit, Intuity planned and designed for EnBW earlier this year for the Hannovermesse. Congrats for the great response in Milan and thank you Jochen for sending the photos! About Ecsite: Ecsite is the European network for science centres and museums, linking science communication professionals in [...]

Fritzing ist eine Open-Source-Initiative entstanden an der FH in Potsdam, die Designer und Künstler bei der Gestaltung von elektronischen Produkten und Werken unterstützt. Die Fritzing-Software ermöglicht das einfache und realitätsnahe »Zusammenstecken« von elektronischen Schaltkreisen und generiert daraus automatisch das Layout einer professionellen Platine. Die dadurch gewonnene vollständige Dokumentation eines Projekts ermöglicht erstmals den einfachen Austausch [...]

FLARE is a modular system to create a dynamic hull for facades or any building or wall surface. Acting like a living skin, it allows a building to express, communicate and interact with its environment. FLARE turns the building facade into a penetrable kinetic membrane, breaking with all conventions of the building surface as a [...]

USC Institute for Creative Technologies presents (at SIGGRAPH 2007), a new low-cost autostereoscopic 3D display. via futurefeeder

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Reconfigurable House // Hacking low tech architecture The Reconfigurable House is an environment constructed from thousands of low tech components that can be “rewired” by visitors. The project is a critique of ubiquitous computing “smart homes”, which are based on the idea that technology should be invisible to prevent DIY.

Interessantes Projekt vom IIT zum Thema Schule und Lernen: ThinkeringSpaces are interactive environments that encourage school age children to tinker with things, both physical and virtual, reflect upon what they discover, and elaborate their ideas in ways they can share with others. Zusammen mit Kommilitonen habe ich während meiner Studienzeit an einem ähnlichen Projekt – [...]

What a beautiful day to start wiring. Thankx to Massimo :-) Long live Arduino …

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